Category: Links Dump

CHART ATTACK!: 8/1/92 | Popdose “I just read the following in their Wikipedia entry: “In 2009, Boyz II Men announced plans for a new cover album, that covers ‘artists I don’t think people would expect us to cover!’ according to Shawn Stockman.” Can Popdose get in on this? Can we make a list of songs… Continue reading Links for 2009-08-01

Guided By Voices | Music | A.V. Club “Dozens of people can say they were members of indie-rock institution Guided By Voices during its 21-year run, but the Dayton, Ohio-based band was chiefly a creative outlet for a music-obsessed former schoolteacher named Robert Pollard. And Pollard was very creative, capable of writing an album’s worth… Continue reading Links for 2009-07-31

The missing research program for space colonization — KarlSchroeder.com “No amount of data about how the human body reacts to zero-G is going to answer the important question, which is: how does the human body react to extended periods under fractional gravity–like the moon’s 1/6 G or Mars’s .38 G? If there’s a potential show-stopper… Continue reading Links for2009-07-30

The Republic of T. » Sotomayor & The Vulcan Standard, Pt. 2 “It hit me like a slap in the face. It sounded familiar, but different. To me, this fictional family was white. But in the time and place they occupied on the page they weren’t “white enough.” “Oh my God!” I exclaimed. My husband,… Continue reading Links for2009-07-29

kate_nepveu: Worldcon: online jerkitude “I’m trying to come up with a list of bedrock principles that apply across all online contexts, and I keep getting bogged down in my lawyer tendencies. So what would you say are the fundamental, applies-anywhere minimum requirements of human decency when it comes to online interactions?” (tags: internet culture society… Continue reading Links for2009-07-28

KR Blog » The Wilderness of Memory “[Chabon asks] a valid question, but I can’t escape the feeling that it reflects a particularly American idealization of childhood. Growing up slowly is a privilege of wealth, and few children throughout human history have enjoyed a childhood without the privations of hunger, war, or grinding poverty. “… Continue reading Links for 2009-7-27

The del.icio.us automatic blog posting that usually produces the daily links dump posts here has been broken during the recent ScienceBlogs upgrade. The links dump posts from last Thursday on didn’t happen, but we’ve kludged up a way to get that material back. These are the links that should’ve posted on Saturday the 25th: Friday… Continue reading Links Dump Backlog: 7/25/09

The del.icio.us automatic blog posting that usually produces the daily links dump posts here has been broken during the recent ScienceBlogs upgrade. The links dump posts from last Thursday on didn’t happen, but we’ve kludged up a way to get that material back. These are the links that should’ve posted on Friday the 24th: Scientists… Continue reading Links Dump Backlog: 7/24/09

The del.icio.us automatic blog posting that usually produces the daily links dump posts here has been broken during the recent ScienceBlogs upgrade. The links dump posts from last Thursday on didn’t happen, but we’ve kludged up a way to get that material back. These are the links that should’ve posted on Thursday the 23rd: Pimp… Continue reading Links Dump Backlog: 7/23/09

slacktivist: On offendedness "Taking offense and getting angry aren’t exactly the same thing. Anger has to do with the intolerable difference between what is and what ought to be, which is to say, with injustice. Offendedness has to do with my own discomfort with the difference between how I feel and how I’d prefer to… Continue reading links for 2009-07-22